Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...human history. State's performance must be measured against that role in all its immensity and complexity, at a time when the dramatic diplomatic breakthrough is a thing of history, when success is forged from months and years of patient effort, when egregious failure could bring down the sky. It must be examined in the context of a nation that is history's most powerful, yet is still reluctant to use its power. So, too, must State's performance be considered in the light of its assigned functions, which are: representing the nation abroad, reporting to Washington...
...SILENT SKY by Allan W. Eckert. 243 pages. Little, Brown...
...passenger pigeon, which numbered in the billions, and may have accounted for nearly 40% of the country's bird population. Each year they swept across the central and eastern U.S., from the Gulf Coast to Canada and back again in roaring migratory swarms that sometimes darkened the entire sky. They could fly for 20 hours on end with bursts of speed up to 90 miles an hour; yet it sometimes took three days for a flight to pass a given point...
Tree Tenements. They were elegant and graceful in flight, slow and stupid-seeming on the ground, and fatally gregarious. When they settled in to feed or rest, they would funnel down, out of the sky, filling every branch and foothold, stacking up on one another's backs a dozen deep, splintering weak branches, toppling whole dead trees to the ground. They nested in only slightly less congestion, spreading out over scores of square miles, making every tree a kind of arboreal tenement...
...former Japanese bar hostess. Sukarno had left Merdeka Palace to visit her brown-walled bungalow for dinner beneath dozens of Indonesian statues. As the meal ended, word came of a military uprising in the city. Dismissing his motorcade, Sukarno summoned a helicopter and was lifted up into the night sky-and for four days, the flamboyant, hard-living leader of a nation of 104 million was not seen or heard from...